Family was beloved by community

9:32 AM,
Oct. 30, 2013

Friends gathered Tuesday at the Ureñas' home in Mount Vernon to mourn the four family members killed.

Written by

James O?Rourke

Friends and neighbors of the stricken Ureña family united in grief Tuesday night as a memorial of flowers and candles was erected at the site of the tragedy.

Scores of mourners flocked to the house at 11 S. Bond St. to pay their respects to the four family members who were killed. As the people passed, men worked around the property to board up the windows of the charred building.

The home was ravaged early Tuesday by a fire that claimed the lives of Alcedo Ureña, his wife, Nancy Ureña, and two of their children, Jesus Ureñaand Mariselis Ureña. Raymundo Ureña escaped the blaze. Several others were ...